What did you collect when you were younger?

[Timbuck]

Most of the woggles I had were leather, as was the standard cubs' woggle (brown leather with the Scouts emblem in gold) but I remember being given a hand-carved wooden one by an Austrian scout, and (I think) I had one or two other metal woggles. I think the bronze one I bought at the Jubilee Jamboree in 1957 was "just for show" as it kept slipping down and so wasn't practical. At least one of this year's centenary woggles is a combination of bronze and leather, which would work better - see http://i13.ebayimg.com/06/i/000/b2/28/9160_1.JPG

 

and here's a rather snazzy brass one:

 

http://www.woggleland.com/woggle/photo/WK18_2-BRONZE.jpg

I had one made from an old tobbaco pipe, it was a carved head of a buffalow with little ivory horns..I drilled through the bottom of the bowl and cut off the stem I remember it ponged a bit..If i'd left it as a pipe it would be in some collection by now and worth a few quid.

[hillsbro]

I had one made from an old tobbaco pipe, it was a carved head of a buffalow with little ivory horns..I drilled through the bottom of the bowl and cut off the stem I remember it ponged a bit..If i'd left it as a pipe it would be in some collection by now and worth a few quid.

 

It might still be worth something - try looking on eBay under "decorative improvised woggles".